Inner city kids, especially in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, have a much weaker connection with LSU than kids from the suburbs. I see it every year among my students. They typically follow Southern or the flavor of the week (Bama, Oregon, etc.).
Come live in New Jersey, and you'll understand. I'll agree that I can't imagine not wanting to represent the flagship school of your home state when that state is Louisiana.
I read the book It Never Rains In Tiger Stadium and the way Charley Mac offered the scholarship and had the people in the office announce for the kid to come up he had a call from Charley Mac. They all started clapping and congratulating. Now a lot of the kids would tell the office to take a message. A lot of the kids have no state pride anymore. There are ones that still love La. but it is all big business now and these kids don't play for the love of the game anymore. It is who is dishing the dollars and the girls and the rides.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...ffensive-tackle-class-2017-commits-lsu-tigers 4th highest ranking OT commits to LSU Austin Deculus You know if he would happen to decommit and then commit again to LSU, I would find that rather redeculus.